> (xbase-clients, rather - your reply just went to me, sorry I didn't
get

> round to responding.)
Oops, hit the wrong key.
> I *think* the problem is in apt, not xbase-clients. If you had startx
> before the upgrade, you had xbase-clients - which means that something

> in the upgrade caused xbase-clients to be removed. A number of
packages,
> including things like xfonts-base and xlibs, conflict with old
versions

> of xbase-clients, but this should have caused xbase-clients to be
> upgraded rather than removed.
You could be right. Next upgrade I will try the debugging output.
However, it is unlikely I will be upgrading another Debian machine soon.
Perhaps someone else on the list will try it, eventually.
Should the bug system still get an informational note, perhaps?
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada

I had similar problems with xconsole (and maybe others, I didn't check)
disappearing. However, I didn't lose the startx command. The
xbase-clients package showed up as installed on my system. I did an
'apt-get install --reinstall' and xconsole was restored. I would guess
that some other package is responsible for the disappearance. Was
xconsole part of another package previously?